CeMig Newsletter

30 November 2023

This is the newsletter of the Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig). It provides regular information about events, research projects and publications on the subject of migration at Göttingen Campus and within the region.

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CeMig Events

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Online Veranstaltungsreihe der interdisziplinären Forschungsgruppe:

Public Health und Migration

14.12.2023, 16:15-17:45 CET, ONLINE

Wir brauchen mehr solidarische Infrastrukturen – Das Beispiel Poliklinik Veddel

von Lukas Waidhas (Versorgungsforschungsprojekt CoSta: "Community Health Nursing in der Stadt", HAW-Hamburg in Praxiskooperation mit der Poliklinik Veddel) und Milli Schroeder (Projektkoordinatorin, Poliklinik Veddel)

Weitere Informationen und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung finden Sie <hier.> 

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Events of the Urban Lab – Paths Towards a Colonial-Critical City

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Workshop:

11.12.2023, 16:00-18:00 CET, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen

Kolonialkritische Erinnerungskultur in Göttingen

Nach der Vor-Studie „Koloniale Vergangenheit in Göttingen?“ lädt das Stadtlabor zum öffentlichen Dialog zum Umgang mit kolonialen Spuren im Stadtbild ein. Dazu werden Charlotte Prauß, Geschichtswissenschaftlerin und Verfasserin der Studie, sowie Sarah Böger, Koordinatorin des Stadtlabors und Gründungsmitglied von Göttingen Postkolonial, in einem Workshop anhand verschiedener Beispiele einen Dialograum in Kleingruppen eröffnen um Möglichkeiten einer kolonialismus- und rassismuskritischen Weiterentwicklung der Erinnerungskultur zu erarbeiten.

Kurzfristige Updates zu den Veranstaltungen werden zeitnah über die Social Media Kanäle des Stadtlabors (s.o.) kommuniziert.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie <hier.> 

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New Publications by CeMig Members

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 The Effect of Foreign Aid on Migration:

Global Evidence from World Bank Projects

New publication by CeMig Member Andreas Fuchs

with: Andre Gröger, Tobias Heidland, Lukas Wellner

In response to surging immigration pressure in Europe and the United States, Western policymakers advocate foreign aid as a means to fight the 'root causes' of irregular migration. This article provides the first global evidence of the effects of aid on migration preferences, migration flows, and possible underlying mechanisms, both in the short and longer term. We combine newly geocoded data on World Bank aid project allocation at the subnational level over the period 2008-2019 with exceptionally rich survey data from a sample of almost one million individuals across the entire developing world and data on migration and asylum seeker flows to high-income countries. Employing two distinct causal estimation strategies, we show that in the short term (after the announcement of a World Bank project and within two years after project disbursement), foreign aid improves individual expectations about the future and trust in national institutions in aid-receiving regions, which translate into reduced individual migration preferences and asylum-seeker flows. In the longer term (between three to five years after disbursement), foreign aid fosters improvements in individual welfare through poverty reduction and income increases, resulting in larger regular migration to high-income countries. Our findings show that aid can cause a short-lived reduction in migration aspirations, except in fragile Sub-Saharan African contexts where aid appears largely ineffective. In contrast, foreign aid enhances individual capabilities over the longer term, contributing to greater regular migration, consistent with the 'mobility transition' theory

In: Kiel Working Papers, No. 2257. More information can be found <here>.

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On Current Occasion

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Online Keynote Lecture

From Border War to Civil War: Populism / Fascism / Authoritarianism

by Nicholas De Genova  

as part of the ZiF Research Group "Internalizing Borders" (Convenor: CeMig Member Sabine Hess)

13.12.23, 17:15 - 19:00 CET

Migration and borders — or more precisely, the spectacles of “border crisis” — have taken center stage in public debate and policy interventions in migrant-“receiving” countries, worldwide.  Across the globe, alongside an escalation in border violence, there has likewise proliferated a variety of reactionary right-wing (“populist”) political and social movements that can only be adequately characterized, very frankly, as anti-immigrant fascism.  In this context of alarmist yet incessant discourses of migrant/ refugee/ border “crisis,” nonetheless, extra-state formations of anti-immigrant violence merely amplify and supplement the more fundamental violence of the border enforcement regimes of state powers.  That is to say, the populist enthusiasm for an increasingly authoritarian politics of borders and migration tends to simply intensify and extend the inherently authoritarian and despotic character of how borders serve as premier sites for the enactment of a state’s sovereign power, particularly as targeted against non-citizen border crossers.  Reciprocally, it is this rather routine border authoritarianism that then animates and fuels a wider drift toward right-wing political authoritarianism.  Thus, the increasingly fascistic political discourses of “civil war” that depict “domestic” or “internal” rivals as political “enemies” and social “threats” derive much of their elemental momentum from the nationalist metaphysics and nativist ethos of border “war.”

Kindly find more information and ZOOM-link <here>. 

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